Business Analyst

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The Technical Business Analyst (TBA) will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with the client Business, Corporate and Technology teams.

The TBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The TBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems. The TBA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.

Role Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business priorities
• Help the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification in order to deploy regularly to production
• Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release
• Be capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimation
• Be responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisation
• Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation
• Be proactive in supporting the team’s engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs
• Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge
• Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business products
• Challenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issues
• Ensure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC
• Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use cases
• Support members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deployment
• Collaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and delivery
• Be a liaison between the business units, technology and support teams
• Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate
• Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions

Experience / Competences:

Essential:

• Degree or equivalent industry experience
• Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems
• Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products
• Experience of regulatory driven projects
• Financial sector experience
• Enterprise system experience
• Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role

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